Alien 5 is a movie Sigourney Weaver wants to make

As with a lot of movie franchises, the first couple of movies really stand out for their quality, and then everything else comes across as a bit of a cash-in. That’s certainly the case with the Alien franchise. Alien and Aliens are both fantastic movies, Alien 3 was hindered by major production problems, but David Fincher still managed to deliver. Then we have Alien Resurrection, which the less we say about, the better.

Ridley Scott has also taken the Alien universe in a different direction with Prometheus. Looking at how these aliens came to be. Prometheus is a love it or hate it experience, and I for one certainly look forward to Prometheus 2 getting made. But is there room for an Alien 5? Sigourney Weaver seems to think so.

If 20th Century Fox did decide to greenlight Alien 5, they’d have to choose whether to once again base the story around Ellen Ripley or reboot with a new angle and new characters. Sigourney Weaver believes that Ripley has one more movie in her, simply for the fact her story needs concluding.

During an interview with the LA Times, Weaver commented, “I do feel like there is more story to tell … I feel a longing from fans for the story to be finished … I could imagine a situation where we finish telling the story.”

Clearly she’s ready to play Ripley one last time, but do fans really want that. Alien Resurrection ended with her returning to Earth, but she’s now a human-alien hybrid clone. How would you go from there to concluding her story I wonder?